Whether a galactic environment has the right conditions for habitable planets to form could depend on how the black hole in ...

Dark matter is a confounding concept that teeters on the leading edges of cosmology and physics. We don't know what it is or ...

Experiments suggest that an unusual magnetic material can help harness energy from the planet’s rotation. But not everyone is ...

Research published in October 2024 revealed that one planet was rotating around Barnard's Star, the second-closest single ...

Buried more than 3,000 miles beneath our feet, Earth’s solid inner core was once thought to be unchanging—locked in place at ...

Known as SIMP 0136, the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope caught a glimpse of it floating through the universe all by ...

But this effect can be dramatic in the right circumstances. "If the planet is rotating very fast, the poles will flatten," Barros said, leading to a squished, football-like shape. Centrifugal ...

A first-of-its-kind discovery regarding the rotation of the globe puts all of Earth's energies in jeopardy. Can Earth’s ...

A screenshot of James’s animation “Planets and dwarf planets to scale in size, rotation speed & axial tilt in distance order from Sun”. Credit must be given to the creator. Only ...

NASA and Princeton scientists have unlocked a new energy source using Earth’s rotation. By harnessing its magnetic field, ...